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Insane, chaotic, tribal chanting and bagpipes. Along with Comus, foreshadowed the modern free-folk /drone movement. Already commercially successful as tune-smiths for teenyboppers, Austin Grasmere and Brian Elliot approached Bernard Stollman looking to focus their talents on something more original and unrestrained. Stollman asked, “What would be your theme?” and Elliot replied: “Everything is one.” Bernard said, “Go do it.” What followed was Cromagnon's (Grasmere, Elliot and the Connecticut Tribe) non-linear journey through the subconscious, weaving together bizarre instrumentation and meter with a psychotic blending of musical styles. Bagpipes, pounding percussion, blood-curdling yelps, chanting, laughing, and billowing subterranean rumblings create the...

The Cromagnon Band are a band from London, UK who play funk, progressive and psychedelic rock music. They are signed to the Battered Ornaments record label. .